BURLINGTON, Vt. -
Burlington police are looking for two women in connection with a convenience store holdup Tuesday night.
Police say one woman flashed a gun at the Rotary Mart on Shelburne Street and demanded cash from the clerk. But police say the clerk confronted her, asking if the gun was real, and pushed her out of the store. A second woman, believed to have been driving the getaway car, got out to defend her friend.
"She comes over, encounters the attendant, threatens him. Threatens him with a weapon, an edged weapon. And they both flee in the vehicle in what we believe was north from the store," Burlington Deputy Police Chief Andi Higbee said.
Police say the women made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. One of the suspects left behind her sunglasses and the gun, which turned out to be fake. They took off in a silver or blue sedan.
WCAX News has learned that police are looking into whether the two women are connected to the mugging of an elderly man in Springfield Tuesday afternoon.
Anyone with information should call Burlington police at 802-658-2700.
